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My favorite part is that 36 (or 39 I can't remember) percent of Jill Stein voters say that Trump is their second choice.
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Badger of Basra posted:My favorite part is that 36 (or 39 I can't remember) percent of Jill Stein voters say that Trump is their second choice. That supports what someone on the radio was saying this morning; most of those Johnson, Stein, and Other votes will break for Trump, and his lead could end up being more like 7 or 8, not 2 or 3.
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blue squares posted:That supports what someone on the radio was saying this morning; most of those Johnson, Stein, and Other votes will break for Trump, and his lead could end up being more like 7 or 8, not 2 or 3. Which tells you just about everything you need to know re third parties.
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Badger of Basra posted:My favorite part is that 36 (or 39 I can't remember) percent of Jill Stein voters say that Trump is their second choice. It's a poll of 1,200 people and 2% are voting for Stein, so I wouldn't draw any conclusions from the second choices of 24 people.
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+2 for the Iron Abuela yesterday in Austin. We tried the Randalls at Mopac and Billy Boom Boom (William Cannon). Some guy was at the end of the line with a tablet saying he didn't work there, but was taking pictures of the backs of licenses and made the line form along the far wall into the refrigerated section. We thought we just heard that guy wrong but it is nagging me. We left rather than stand there and voted in Bee Cave. The Randalls line was huge so it probably came out even.
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Oct 27, 2016 18:06
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Twenty minute wait at this polling station on UT Austin campus. Thanks for actually turning out for the general, college students!
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Oct 27, 2016 18:59
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I'm going to subconsciously horrify every Republican in my town by making a point of early voting at a black-folks-oriented-ish church.  (For the other six dozen BCS goons in this thread: Galilee Baptist, a couple blocks west of Fargo's Barbecue, ie the best brisket in town and a very reasonable contender for top ten in the state.)
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Oct 27, 2016 20:06
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Just what Austin needs, another bar.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:09
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Winter Stormer posted:Twenty minute wait at this polling station on UT Austin campus. Thanks for actually turning out for the general, college students! 15 minutes here for the shriners off of burnet. +1 to the Iron Abuela. Trumpo delende est.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:08
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If I did the math right, 10% of registered voters in Bexar county voted in the first three days. That's a pretty good turnout.
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Oct 27, 2016 20:19
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duz posted:If I did the math right, 10% of registered voters in Bexar county voted in the first three days. That's a pretty good turnout.  At this rate by the end of the day more people will have voted early than voted in the 2015 mayoral election (  I voted in the mayoral election)
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Oct 27, 2016 20:36
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citybeatnik posted:15 minutes here for the shriners off of burnet. 15 minutes? Wow. I live in SW Houston and it took 2 and a half hours to vote on Monday. Probably took the river oaks people 2 minutes.
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Aliquid posted:Is Ken Mercer of the SBOE related to Robert Mercer? Alternatively, Lee Harvey's south of I-30.
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Padams posted:15 minutes? Wow. I live in SW Houston and it took 2 and a half hours to vote on Monday. Probably took the river oaks people 2 minutes. Yeah, north-west Austin, in one of the ben-hur shriner halls. I went after lunch (around 1.45) and they had, like, thirty god drat machines set up and three different lines. poo poo-loads of old white people.
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Oct 27, 2016 23:00
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The most vulnerable of the Texas US Rep races for Republicans look to be (in descending order) 14, 27, 25, 6, and 32, though even 14 was something like R+11 in 2012.
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citybeatnik posted:Yeah, north-west Austin, in one of the ben-hur shriner halls. I went after lunch (around 1.45) and they had, like, thirty god drat machines set up and three different lines.
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Oct 27, 2016 23:18
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Wikkheiser posted:Sounds like my old neighborhood off Burnet. It's actually a pretty liberal area, and went 64% for Obama in 2012, four points above the county average. Yeah. Allandale went to Obama by 30 points. Old white Austinites are solid democrats as long as you don't ask them to make any sacrifices like possibly not being able to park directly in from of their house.
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Shifty Pony posted:Yeah. Allandale went to Obama by 30 points. the MY PROPERTY VALUES crowd
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:+2 for the Iron Abuela yesterday in Austin. We tried the Randalls at Mopac and Billy Boom Boom (William Cannon). Some guy was at the end of the line with a tablet saying he didn't work there, but was taking pictures of the backs of licenses and made the line form along the far wall into the refrigerated section. What the gently caress (bolded quote)? Isn't this illegal?
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Well then, APD chief police Hubert Acevedo got recorded ripping his underlings a new one.quote:If you can’t handle a kid in broad daylight, naked, and your first instinct is to come out with your gun, and your next instinct is to shoot the kid dead, you don’t need to be a cop. I don’t give a poo poo how nice you are. quote:Nobody wearing stripes, or bars or stars should even think about justifying a woman — that the reason that woman got pulled out of that car is because she had the audacity to tell him to hurry up. You know what? Millennials ask questions, so get over it. If you are going to order somebody to do something, you better have a drat good reason if you are going to take them to jail.
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Oct 28, 2016 04:45
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+1 for Abuela, Lupe Valdez, and other Dallas County troublemakers in Farmers Branch. There were three people manning the desk, and all 3 were helping people when I got there just before closing, so technically I was in line for a few minutes? In that I was the line. CFB ISD has some kind of bond issue on the ballot, but my house is in a weird spit of DISD extending north of 635. So I guess that tax wouldn't effect me? Seriously, if you look at the voting precinct map, it looks like spit. Or some other bodily fluid.
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duz posted:Well then, APD chief police Hubert Acevedo got recorded ripping his underlings a new one. Considering they hired him specifically to address apd's issue with minorities, this is not surprising
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EwokEntourage posted:Considering they hired him specifically to address apd's issue with minorities, this is not surprising How he has not been lured away to a bigger city for a larger paycheck is a mystery to me.
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blue squares posted:That supports what someone on the radio was saying this morning; most of those Johnson, Stein, and Other votes will break for Trump, and his lead could end up being more like 7 or 8, not 2 or 3. I'm guessing a lot of Texans aren't so much for backing Trump, but REALLY despise Clinton.
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Just voted this morning before heading to work, along with my dad. Straight ticket D in Travis county, with our votes on Prop 1 cancelling each other out. He feels the bond sets a bad precedent of not paying for infrastructure out of the normal budget. I reluctantly voted for it because something is better than nothing and I suspect the city would use it failing to justify not doing anything. Mom already voted straight ticket D a few days ago, and my brother's going to vote the same later today.
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While I would love to see Texas swing blue, and am excited by the record-breaking voter turnout, the straight ticket D votes make me a little sad. There are actually some great moderate Republican judges up against inexperienced, or just bad, Dem opposition and I hope they don't end up getting ousted. Edit for those interested: Supreme court: Deborah Lehrmann and Eva Guzman Court of Criminal Appeals: Mary Lou Keel and Mike Keasler All solid, smart judges.
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A lovely Reporter posted:Just voted this morning before heading to work, along with my dad. Straight ticket D in Travis county, with our votes on Prop 1 cancelling each other out. He feels the bond sets a bad precedent of not paying for infrastructure out of the normal budget. I reluctantly voted for it because something is better than nothing and I suspect the city would use it failing to justify not doing anything. Mom already voted straight ticket D a few days ago, and my brother's going to vote the same later today. I'm pretty sure budget best practice is actually not to pay for infrastructure out of the current budget. If you pay for a road that lasts 20 years all in the current year, people over the next 19 years (including people who move here after the road is built and paid for) get it for free. If you pay for it with a 20 year bond, the cost is spread out so that everyone who benefits has to pay. Tell your dad to read a public finance textbook, jeez!
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I've been too exhausted and disillusioned by this election to bother researching individual candidates so I open palm slammed that straight ticket D button and left. I don't think we're in any serious danger of the sane GOP judges being ousted in Texas.
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Bonds are cool and good and a great way to pay for things. I actually hate straight ticket voting. To me, it feels like you're not owning your vote. It makes it too easy for low information partisans to just keep one party in power without any introspection. I'd be happy if it didn't exist in any state.
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Voting at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Service right now in Harris County and while the line is long, they say they are getting a new voter on a machine every 11 seconds and the line is moving pretty drat fast. The workers were bragging that they were the fastest polling location in the county.
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Oct 28, 2016 18:57
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Bonds are cool and good and a great way to pay for things. Good news for me then, there's a lot of races on my ballot that are R vs Libertarian, so I can't just go straight D.
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Doom Rooster posted:There are actually some great moderate Republican judges up against inexperienced, or just bad, Dem opposition and I hope they don't end up getting ousted. Don't worry, they won't. this did make me feel a little worse about using straight-ticket D plus reasonable nonpartisan as a protest vote this year though 
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Dameius posted:Voting at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Service right now in Harris County and while the line is long, they say they are getting a new voter on a machine every 11 seconds and the line is moving pretty drat fast. The workers were bragging that they were the fastest polling location in the county. Oh I voted there too. It was speedy. I didn't vote straight D. I also voted for some crazy lawyer for an appeals judge position.
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Here's my races: President Railroad Commissioner Texas Supreme court places 3, 5, 9 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals places 2, 5, 6 State Board of Education district 14 2nd Court of Appeals district places 3 and 4 US Rep district 26 State Senator district 12 Denton County Commissioner Precinct 3 Denton County Constable Precinct 3 Denton County Sheriff Denton County Tax Assessor-Collector Texas District Court Judge district 442 Texas House district 63 Any good voting guides out there that lays out their positions? League of Women Voters just has basic information.
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The Mandingo posted:Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian is so legitimately terrifying that the libertarian put out radio ads on Limbaugh pitting him as the moderate. Christian is easily the worst candidate on the statewide slate. He's also running a lovely campaign so his radio ads aren't even uploaded to youtube. I voted for the Democrat in this race but at least this dude isn't insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGgEqyOsYLE It was also important for me to oust the SBOE's Tom Maynard, noted massive piece of poo poo i say swears online fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Just attempted to vote at the Fiesta, but the line was wrapping around the building. Looked like at least an hour wait Friday mid-afternoon to vote at the Fiesta, which says something.
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In line to vote at the library in Clear Lake. Line was halfway to the back of the building behind the library when I got here and it's just about all the way back there now. (+2 for Abuela here with me and my husband. My mom told me last night she's voting for McMullins if possible, so... eh.)
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